59\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.83 3mph WNW dewpoint 31\u00a0 Beltane<\/p>\n
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Hemerocallis (the daylily) is a sturdy member of the plant kingdom.\u00a0 Every time I plant, no matter where I plant it, nor the care I give it, the daylily spreads and grows happily.\u00a0 That’s why years after the fact the foundation outlines for many rural home are still obvious, tiger lilies continue to grow and bloom just like the house was still there.\u00a0 Today all the daylilies in the first raised bed we ever had, made, as all of them, by Jon, got moved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jon also put in a cedar rail fence and last year I deconstructed it down to the original cedar fencing. We had him add wire fencing to keep out nuisance animals–our dogs.\u00a0 An older me saw them as less of a problem, Kate agreed, so down the wire fence came.\u00a0 The daylilies have gone from the bed to the edge of the cedar rail fence.\u00a0 Two peonies have likewise made the transition, but they went into a tree circling bed that is about a quarter finished.\u00a0 We have a young, sturdy elm on the fence line. \u00a0I removed the fence around it and will soon complete digging out a circular bed around its dripline.<\/p>\n
The former daylily and peony bed will get sweet corn.\u00a0 I’m also going to try the Native American method of planting climbing beans at the base of the corn stalk.<\/p>\n
Three tomato plants grown from seed to 1\u00a0foot\u00a0+ under the lights are now in place, too.\u00a0 They went in the former lily (Asian and other true lilies) bed.\u00a0 I’m taking a chance planting them directly outside with no hardening off, but I wanted to try it, see how it works.\u00a0 If they die, we’ll buy a couple of tomato plants.\u00a0 If they don’t, I can skip a step in the future if I watch the weather carefully.\u00a0 Which I do.<\/p>\n
Also had a brainstorm for\u00a0what\u00a0to do\u00a0with the hill that has succumbed to raspberry canes.\u00a0 Moss.\u00a0 This is a shady area and I read an article about how to convert lawns to\u00a0moss.\u00a0 It won’t work for our front lawn yet, but it should work on this slope shadowed by the seven oaks at the top.\u00a0 Gonna try it.\u00a0 The result can’t be worse than what we have.<\/p>\n
While I dug and transplanted, Kate made a trip to the Greenbarn, a nursery and garden store up near Isanti.\u00a0 She bought a number of things:\u00a0 impatiens, onion sets, Coleus, sphagnum moss, small onion sets already well underway, some seeds as well as other things.\u00a0 Anyhow all this means the 2008 gardening season is off and growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
59\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.83 3mph WNW dewpoint 31\u00a0 Beltane \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Hare Moon Hemerocallis (the daylily) is a sturdy member of the plant kingdom.\u00a0 Every time I plant, no matter where I plant it, nor the care I give it, the daylily spreads and grows happily.\u00a0 That’s why years after the fact … Continue reading 2008 Gardening Season Is Underway<\/span>